Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student who has followed the ordinary curriculum of high or preparatory schools, can possibly have more than an elementary knowledge of any subject at the end of his Freshman year. Before this time he is required to select his field for concentration. A priori, we may assume that he knows nothing of economics, for no student in his first year may take Economics A without special permission from the instructor. Obviously no one can wisely say whether he cares to make an advanced study of any subject when he has mastered little more than its rudiments. This fact is recognized...
...part, a little co-operation, will not only increase the effectiveness of lectures and musicals, but, once inaugurated, will accommodate their own members. For, with due apology, to that long-suckled watchword of Harvard indifference, there are men and even club men who take an interest in the extra-curriculum opportunities -- intellectual, and artistic--held out to them here...
...Princeton has no institution which can in any way be compared to the Harvard Union, it is planning to build a University Club along similar lines. At present it is suggested to have the membership open to all members of the university and faculty. All the offices of extra-curriculum activities will be centered here, and possibly a small theatre will be attached. A grill room, library, and all the appurtenances of a club will be included...
Four new half-courses, two for graduates, and two for graduates and under graduates, are offered in the curriculum for the second half-year...
...practically all branches of study open to Harvard undergraduates, the student can go as fast and as far as he pleases. To this there is one notable exception in the case of English Composition, perhaps the most fundamental and yet the most alighted study of the curriculum. Granting that the elements of grammar and decent writing can be learned only in the home and graded schools, there still remains a field for development of the ability to write the English language well which it is the duty of the college to cultivate. There are steps in the teaching of English...